A novel forecasting framework combining virtual samples and enhanced Transformer models for tourism demand forecasting

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Hauptverfasser: Diao, Tingting, Wu, Xinzhang, Yang, Lina, Xiao, Ling, Dong, Yunxuan
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author Diao, Tingting
Wu, Xinzhang
Yang, Lina
Xiao, Ling
Dong, Yunxuan
author_facet Diao, Tingting
Wu, Xinzhang
Yang, Lina
Xiao, Ling
Dong, Yunxuan
contents Accurate tourism demand forecasting is hindered by limited historical data and complex spatiotemporal dependencies among tourist origins. A novel forecasting framework integrating virtual sample generation and a novel Transformer predictor addresses constraints arising from restricted data availability. A spatiotemporal GAN produces realistic virtual samples by dynamically modeling spatial correlations through a graph convolutional network, and an enhanced Transformer captures local patterns with causal convolutions and long-term dependencies with self-attention,eliminating autoregressive decoding. A joint training strategy refines virtual sample generation based on predictor feedback to maintain robust performance under data-scarce conditions. Experimental evaluations on real-world daily and monthly tourism demand datasets indicate a reduction in average MASE by 18.37% compared to conventional Transformer-based models, demonstrating improved forecasting accuracy. The integration of adaptive spatiotemporal sample augmentation with a specialized Transformer can effectively address limited-data forecasting scenarios in tourism management.
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spellingShingle A novel forecasting framework combining virtual samples and enhanced Transformer models for tourism demand forecasting
Diao, Tingting
Wu, Xinzhang
Yang, Lina
Xiao, Ling
Dong, Yunxuan
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Machine Learning
Accurate tourism demand forecasting is hindered by limited historical data and complex spatiotemporal dependencies among tourist origins. A novel forecasting framework integrating virtual sample generation and a novel Transformer predictor addresses constraints arising from restricted data availability. A spatiotemporal GAN produces realistic virtual samples by dynamically modeling spatial correlations through a graph convolutional network, and an enhanced Transformer captures local patterns with causal convolutions and long-term dependencies with self-attention,eliminating autoregressive decoding. A joint training strategy refines virtual sample generation based on predictor feedback to maintain robust performance under data-scarce conditions. Experimental evaluations on real-world daily and monthly tourism demand datasets indicate a reduction in average MASE by 18.37% compared to conventional Transformer-based models, demonstrating improved forecasting accuracy. The integration of adaptive spatiotemporal sample augmentation with a specialized Transformer can effectively address limited-data forecasting scenarios in tourism management.
title A novel forecasting framework combining virtual samples and enhanced Transformer models for tourism demand forecasting
topic Applications
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19423